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Book ReviewsBook reviewed in this issueHuman Values: new essays on ethics and natural lawEd. David S. Oderberg and Timothy Chappell Reviewed by John Haldane Palgrave Macmillan, £50 Tablet bookshop price £45 Being Indian Pavan K. Varma Reviewed by Krishna Dutta William Heinemann, £17.99 Tablet bookshop price £16.20 The New Testament: freshly translated with an interactive study guide Nicholas King Reviewed by Anthony Harvey Kevin Mayhew, £19.99 Tablet bookshop price £18 Games of Chance: the history of a family Julian Fane Reviewed by David McLaurin The Book Guild, £16.95 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 Look At The Dark Nicholas Mosley Reviewed by Bill Bankes-Jones Secker & Warburg, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 Riviera Nature Notes: a popular account of the more conspicuous plants and animals of the Riviera and the Maritime Alps Ed. by Rob Cassy Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge Signal Books , £30 Tablet bookshop price £27 Previous weeks reviewsThe lost Executioner: a story of the Khmer RougeNic Dunlop Reviewed by Simon Scott Plummer Bloomsbury, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 The Families who made Rome Anthony Majanlahti Reviewed by Mary Emma Baxter Chatto & Windus, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 The Short Day Dying Peter Hobbs Reviewed by Nick Parker Faber & Faber, £10.99 Tablet bookshop price £10 Virginia Woolf: an inner life Julia Briggs Reviewed by Robert Nye Allen Lane, £30 Tablet bookshop price £27 The View in Winter Ronald Blythe Reviewed by Isabel Quigly Canterbury Press, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 After Elizabeth: how James King of Scots won the crown of England in 1603 Leanda de Lisle Reviewed by Lucy Wooding HarperCollins, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Too many books are written by authors telling history as they would want it to have been. Such is the human capacity for self-deception, they are usually genuine in their convictions, ...  The secret of Bryn Estyn: the making of a modern witch hunt Richard Webster Reviewed by James Le Fanu Orwell Press, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 The Mirror of the Gods: classical mythology in Renaissance art Malcolm Bull Reviewed by John McEwen Allen Lane, £30 Tablet bookshop price £27 Dinner for Dickens Susan M. Rossi-Wilcox Reviewed by Rosalie Osmond Prospect Books, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 A Winter in China Douglas Galbraith Reviewed by David McLaurin Secker and Warburg, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Flashman on the March George Macdonald Fraser Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune HarperCollins, £17.99 Tablet bookshop price £16.20 My Father’s Rifle Hiner Saleem Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge Atlantic Books, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 Travelling the M25 Clockwise Roy Phippen Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge Pallas Athene, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 A Venetian Affair Andrea di Robilant Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge Harper Perennial, £7.99 Tablet bookshop price £7.20 Serving the Good and the Great Violet Liddle Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge Zondervan, £7.99 Tablet bookshop price £7.20 The Works of Thomas Traherne (Vol.1) Ed. Jan Ross Reviewed by A. M. Allchin Boydell & Brewer, £75 Tablet bookshop price £67.50 There seems always to have been something elusive and strange about the life and writings of Thomas Traherne. A mid-seventeenth-century Anglican clergyman who spent most of his adult ... Penguin Special: the life and times of Allen Lane Jeremy Lewis Reviewed by Isabel Quigly Penguin Viking, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 The Hall of a Thousand Columns: Hindustan to Malabar with Ibn Batutah Tim Mackintosh-Smith Reviewed by David Goodall John Murray, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 No Soft Incense: Barbara Pym and the Church Ed. Hazel K. Bell Reviewed by A.N.Wilson Barbara Pym Society, £7.50 Tablet bookshop price £ St Martin-in-the-Fields Malcolm Johnson Reviewed by Timothy Brittain-Catlin Phillimore & Co, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Enough is Enough Mark Lawson Reviewed by Brendan Walsh Picador, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.70 Fields of Faith: theology and religious studies for the twenty-first century Ed. David F. Ford, Ben Quash and Janet Martin Soskice Reviewed by Fergus Kerr Cambridge University Press, £45 Tablet bookshop price £40.50 In academic life colleagues often mark retirement, not with the gift of a gold watch, but with a festschrift: a volume of essays, related more or less substantially to the ... Augustine, Sinner and Saint James J. O’Donnell Reviewed by Christopher Howse Profile Books, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 Anglican Religious Life: a well kept secret? Ed. Nicolas Stebbing CR Reviewed by A. M. Allchin Dominican Publications, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 Please visit The Tablet Bookshop. |
 Elena Curti The clear message that emerged from the symposium on child sexual abuse held in Rome from ... Is the Church too slow in recognising that academies are the future for Catholic schools?Christopher Lamb According to the chairman of governors at the Cardinal Vaughan School, west London, one ... Goodwin the scapegoatElena Curti There was an old Sixties TV series, Branded, about a disgraced soldier that always began ...
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